bug#52884: closed (What is the expected behavior of xwidget webkit webinspector?)

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> What is the expected behavior of xwidget webkit webinspector?
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> Wed, 29 Dec 2021 16:21:55 -0700
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> On emacs -Q compiled --with-webkit in xwayland on GNOME
> - M-x xwidget-webkit-browse-url RET then enter in some url
> - right click on some element and select 'Inspect Element'
> - the webinspector opens in the same window on the bottom half
> Usually the size of this pane could be changed by dragging on the
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> Repeating the above but splitting the frame via C-x 3 before right
> clicking to pull up webinspector results in webinspector opening its
> own window (this may be related to the segfault on sway)?
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> Should the behavior be consistent in these two cases?
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> akira@akirakyle.com writes:
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> > Repeating the above but splitting the frame via C-x 3 before right
> > clicking to pull up webinspector results in webinspector opening its
> > own window (this may be related to the segfault on sway)?
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> It is probably not related to the segfault, and yes, it is intended
> behaviour: WebKitGtk opens its own inspector window if it thinks the
> WebKitWebView's window is not large enough to fit the inspector.
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> It should work fine unless you have multiple displays, where the
> inspector window will probably open on the wrong display.  This is a
> WebKitGtk bug, not a bug with Emacs (since we set the embedder window
> correctly), so it should be reported to their developers instead.
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> Thanks, closing.  In the future, this kind of question should be sent to
> help-gnu-emacs.
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> (BTW, please prefix your bug reports with some kind of sensible version
> number, such as 29.0.50; the recent changes to xwidgets don't exist on
> the release branch.)
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